Agora Partnerships Board of Directors

Peter Reiling is Executive Vice President for International and Policy Programs at the Aspen Institute. Prior to this, Peter served for eight years as President and CEO of TechnoServe, an international nonprofit organization helping entrepreneurs to build profitable businesses in low-income rural communities across Africa and Latin America. Reiling is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bretton Woods Committee, and the U.S. Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid. An Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow (Class of 1998), he launched the Africa Leadership Initiative, a joint venture of TechnoServe, the Aspen Institute, and an array of African business leaders, in 2002. He launched a similar venture in Central America in 2004.

Sue Igoe is the Vice President of Marketing for RecycleBank. Prior to Recycle Bank, Sue spent a portion of her career working on new ventures in the publishing and media businesses and was on the initial launch team of Agora Partnerships. She also spent four and a half years working at Playboy Enterprises as the Director of Marketing and Events where she started a successful event marketing department for Playboy.com. Sue graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. from Boston College and has an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Eric Sillman is a General Partner at Aperture Venture Partners, a venture capital group primarily focused on healthcare companies in the United States. Prior to this, Eric worked at UBS in the investment banking group primarily focused on Latin America. He also worked at TechnoServe in Latin America and Africa where he assisted rural entrepreneurial enterprises and helped develop a methodology to measure organizational impact. He serves on TechnoServe's Board of Members. He received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and B.A. from Brown University.

Ezra Friedman is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University School of Law. He holds a B.A. from Haverford College, a JD from Yale Law School, and a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Prior to his current position, Ezra has worked as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Yale University and Yale Law School, an economist at the Federal Trade Commission and a licensed New York City Medallion Taxicab Driver.

Sam Sussman is a senior hedge fund analyst at Cadogan Management. Prior to this, Sam had been at Bear, Stearns for 13 years where he was a Senior Managing Director in structured products. Sam also spent 3 years at Corporate Decisions, a Boston-based management consulting firm, where he advised companies on growth opportunities and helped launch a healthcare related venture. Sam has traveled extensively throughout Latin America.  Sam graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a B.A in economics and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ben Powell, Agora Partnerships Managing Partner

Agora Partnerships Nicaragua Board of Directors

Ricardo Terán Terán, Agora Partnerships Nicaragua Managing Partner

Juan Carlos Pereira is currently an Investment Officer with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group.   He is also Co-Founder and former Executive Director of ProNicaragua, a public-private institution that supports foreign investors seeking offshore opportunities in Nicaragua.  Juan Carlos holds a B.A. in Economics from Santa Clara University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.  Juan Carlos speaks fluent Spanish, English, French and Italian.

Paul Davidson, Secretary, Agora Partnerships Nicaragua Operations Manager

Ricardo Terán Salomón is the President and CEO of Grupo Roberto Terán, a multi-industry conglomerate family corporation with over 70 years of operations in Nicaragua, Central America and the United States.  He has held the Presidency of the Nicaraguan Postal System, as well as the top leadership in several business organizations, including the Nicaraguan-Mexican Chamber of Commerce.  Mr. Teran has founded and participated in many social and environmentally focused organizations including the Fundación Roberto Terán, the principal organization on corporate social responsibility in Nicaragua, Fundación Amigos del Bosque, which focuses on sustainable forestry and the American-Nicaraguan Foundation, which focuses on health for poor populations.  Mr. Teran has done graduate studies at Stanford University Business School and has a B.A. in Marketing and International Business from the University of Tennessee.

Kevin Marinacchi is Founder and Vice President for Programs of the Fabretto Children Foundation, a U.S. based foundation dedicated to providing hope and opportunity for abandoned, abused, orphaned and neglected children in Nicaragua.  Since 1994, under Kevin's stewardship, Fabretto has grown from an organization serving less than 500 children to serving nearly 3,000 children in five different centers in Nicaragua.  Kevin earned his B.A. from Georgetown University in 1989 and his MBA from the Kellogg Business School in 1995.